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Sometimes it’s lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.

Ben Harper

You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
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Emotion Express Feel Live Love Say
If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.
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Anybody Else Fall Fallen
It’s so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away
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Boyfriend Break Sometimes Up
Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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Fortune Need Needs Seek
What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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Anything Believe Hope
With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
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People Question Unanswered Worry
Try it first And you’ll see its a blessing And it’s not a curse
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Blessing First Trying
My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better than it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better than how it’s recorded.
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Band Records Song
Could’ve sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?
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Believe Fall Morning
If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that’s because that’s where I’m going to find inspiration.
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Inspiration Rocks
If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.
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Interview Lifetime Men
The lifetime we’ve left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can’t be wrong enough and I can’t hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.
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Long Lying Pain
The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Boys Heritage Musical
What started as a whisper Slowly turned into a scream Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen I don’t know where you came from And I don’t know where you’ve gone Old friends become old strangers Between the darkness and the dawn
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Darkness Dawn Friends Old
There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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Life Love Relationship
As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
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Song Strong Thinking
You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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Difference Live Photograph Time
It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.
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Love Magnificent Something Turns
If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
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Inspire Inspired Play
Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.
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Enemy Mean Rose
It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can’t return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Boys Discovery Lesson Life
The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I’ve gotten happier so it’s a damn good thing.
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Good News Shoulder Things
The spirit is what guides my life, and I’m humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it’s something to be lived.
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God Knees Thanks
Folk is bare bones music.
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Bare Bones Folks
I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
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Appreciate Done Land
The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.
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Jesus Name Number
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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Ethics Long Moral

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